What happens when a Cloud App dies? You take your data and move on. Or. Not. Says billFLO:

Yes, you can download your bills and expense reports in pdf format as usual.

Ouch. Double Ouch. Yes, I understand, using PDF was the cornerstone of the billFLO service, while it lived. But now it’s dead. As someone who lived through days of nightmare discovering a year’s data was gone from my Mint account ( this should be a separate story itself) and having to comb through dozens of PDFs to be able to file my Tax Return, I must say: PDF is not data. It’s dumb print. I’m really sorry for billFLO’s failure as a business, but dumping PDFs on their users is yet another failure. Too bad.

One response to “Death by PDF. Ouch.”

“Most of you probably never heard of this startup”….ouch, now my feelings are really hurt

Since you and I met, billFLO’s direction changed significantly as we became a cash-flow management solution. The dynamic data we monitored actually lives in other systems, like Quickbooks, Paypal, Freshbooks, Blinksale etc. The only data unique to billFLO is expense reports and bills which the user either uploaded or created. Hence, the only data to give back are those pdf files!